mermaid shoot

It was 45 degrees out today with a very high chance of rain. Call us crazy, but Bri and I decided yesterday we should do a mermaid shoot in Lake Nockamixon. Yesterday I purchased extentions and a lightening kit. I've been meaning to get blonde ones for my models Bri and Liz, since their haircuts are normally short. After 2 hours of using the lightening kit, the hair was finally the color I wanted.
I knew Bri would be excited to have long hair again. After I put it in we joked around that she looked like Hannah Montana and Avril Lavigne combined. I showed her my hypothermia survival kit, since we would both be in the water: towels, mittens, shorts, basketballs shorts, pj pants, hoodies, and furry socks. We were set.
After jamming out to MJ's greatest hits we finally arrived. Despite my dreading thoughts about fishermen everywhere at 2 in the afternoon, there were none. Bri started to get changed in the car. I held up the doormat which served multi-purposes throughout our shoot. First it was a changing room. When Bri got out of my car in only a bra and shorts the doormat (Matthew) now served as a shield against the 20 mph winds. Needless to say, it was cold outside. Matthew served for us one last time as a platform under water so that we wouldn't step on any fishing hooks or jagged rocks or lastly snakes, which I told Bri there were none of, because the water was too freezing.
I got in the water first. Freezing water, high winds, and low air temperature. awesome. haha. However I got used to it fairly quickly. I had been cooling down my body temperature the whole way to the shoot by only wearing a short sleeve t-shirt and no jacket with the windows down in my car. Bri finally got in the water and laid on top of one of the rocks. Everyone that had driven up the fishing pier to gaze on the view, was graced with the image of me barefoot in a gargoyle position in the water, and Bri in barely any clothing laying on a rock. Goosebumps covered both of our bodies.
When we were done we decided to leave Matthew in the water. He was 5 inches from floating ashore anyways. We stumbled to the hypothermia survival kit across the rocky shoreline only able to feel pain on the bottom of our feet. We wrapped ourselves in the towels and headed for the car. Their was only one other person on the pier, and he was in his car. An innocent old man. "How do you like the view. I bet you'll like this!" I stated as I quickly removed a pair of basketball shorts and pj shorts to reveal my bathing suit bottoms. Then I hopped in my car and acted like it was perfectly normal. ...well that is normal to me. Besides, the best way to warm up when you are wet and cold is to take off your clothes and rely on your own body heat. See, there is a reason to my madness. haha.
Of course we didn't stop shivering completely until about 5 minutes of being in the car with the heat blasting. All in all it was a good day, despite weather issues. But then again. Nothing really stops me. Not even floods, but that's another story.